Thursday, December 1, 2022

CHS Briefs December 2022


If you have questions, would like to volunteer with Cavendish Historical Society (CHS), or have items for the CHS Cares Closet please e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.comor call 802-226-7807.

 Welcome winter, though it officially doesn’t start for about 20 days. Thanks to Dave Gallagher and Ana, the lights at the Museum are shinning bright, and thank you to Svetlana Phillips for the Stone Church decorations.

 

NEW FOR WINTER 2023/Fireside history chats: In response to various people asking if we’d be repeating different talks/programs at times that were better suited for them, CHS is introducing “Fireside History Chats”this winter. You pick the topic, the time and the place. Invite up to 10 other people, and CHS will bring the program to you, provided it’s within the Okemo Valley. It can be at someone’s home or a central meeting place. 


 

While we can arrange for a particular topic, some talks you might be interested in include:

• Captive Johnson: The story behind “Calico Captive”

• Reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Pick a book, prose poems etc.

• “Columbian Exchange,” refers to the transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, disease and ideas between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after 1492.

• Phineas Gage

• The eerie side of Cavendish

• The first peoples of Cavendish

 


HOLIDAY PROGRAM
In December, CHS runs a series of workshops for CTES students, featuring a different country and Winter Solstice traditions. This year we will be studying the Ukraine through its folktales, Father Frost and the legend of the spider. The date for the workshops is tentatively set for Dec. 21. If you have a home learner that would like to take part in the workshops, please contact the teacher for their respective grade. 

 

INTERESTED IN ARCHIVAL WORK? CHS is going to be relocating the archives in 2023. Before they are moved, a lot of work is needed in sorting and cataloguing. It’s very interesting work and you’ll learn a lot. If interested? Contact us at the numbers above.

 

WHAT’S NEW AT THE CHS BLOG

• CGYHU (Young Historian’s) Update for Dec. 2022 

• Fall Scribbler II 

 

CHS’S ANNUAL APPEAL

November 25, 2022

 

Dear Friend:

 

Chances are that you follow one of the many outreach efforts of the Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) and therefore know it’s been a busy year, with new programs, amazing young historians, and uncovering hidden aspects of Cavendish history. What we haven’t had a chance to post is that the Cavendish Stone Church belfry and roof were repaired in October. We can breathe a sigh of relief as winter rain, snow and wind are now upon us. 


One of my favorite parts of the summer, was the emergence of a group of Cavendish boys that call themselves, “Wild Boys,” because they are teaching themselves how to live off the land. In grades 2-5 at Cavendish Elementary, they’re part of CHS’s Young Historian’s program. In August, they asked if I’d open the Museum so they could see Phineas Gage’s skull. We ended up doing a special mid-week program for them. They became regular Sunday visitors, asking terrific questions and wanting to participate in other CHS programs.  It’s incredible to see a new generation of historians forming, and we hope to have new programs for them and other curious kids the summer of 2023. 

 

Even though the Museum is closed for the winter months, there is still a lot happening, not only with Young Historians, but with archival work. While we need all the donations we can get, please look at the ways below you can help with volunteer activities and let us know, using the numbers above, if you can help 

 

You can play an integral part in CHS by:

• Donating to the annual appeal campaign (see attached form), specifying how you want your contribution to be used. 

 

• Renewing your annual membership.

 

• Volunteering to help with our various programs. We are currently in need of volunteers to help with the archives; identifying WWII patches for the Brenda Gregory project; organizing archives; serving on the board and planning fundraisers.

 

• Donating gently used items to the CHS Closet (please call or e-mail, we’ll make arrangements to pick up items).

 

• Sharing family Covid journals and items that can be archived for future generations. 

 

Wishing you a joyous holiday season, and a safe and happy New Year.

 

Sincerely,

 

Margo Caulfield, Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

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